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Box of Shame

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pstylesss

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We have this one lady in the office that flips out any time someone doesn't wash their dishes. Sometimes it can be a problem and people won't wash their dishes for 3 days to a week... and that person is a douche but come on, does this woman have to flip the hell out any time there is a dirty dish in the sink. We all get at least one angry email a week from this woman.

I walked into the kitchen and I'm faced with this. What the hell is wrong with this person. She thinks we are laughing at the idea, but we are really laughing at her.

Box-o-shame

edit: oh and we just started throwing shit in there for the hell of it.
 
That "Box-O-Shame" is pretty ridiculous but I understand how frustrating it is when people just leave their dirty stuff in the sink and take up room.
 
People like that are a pain in the ass... "Im sick and tired of being everyones mother around here!"

I suggest dumping the contents of the box back into the sink everytime you find it unwatched. Though now that I think about it her picture really is the best option...
 
Originally posted by: mugs
WTF is wrong with you people leaving dishes in the sink at work? 😕
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i have to go with this. thats pretty damn lazy.

then again, i wouldnt bitch about someones dishes if they kept doing it, even if it bugged me.

now, i might hide them, or deface them, but i wouldnt bitch at them and start a box of shame.
 
Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: mugs
WTF is wrong with you people leaving dishes in the sink at work? 😕
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i have to go with this. thats pretty damn lazy.

then again, i wouldnt bitch about someones dishes if they kept doing it, even if it bugged me.

now, i might hide them, or deface them, but i wouldnt bitch at them and start a box of shame.
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For some reason, people need to bring their dirty habits from home to the office. They don't realize they need to respect their fellow coworkers and not be dirty animals.
 
Complain to HR that you find it offensive and that you feel it is creating a hostile work environment or everytime she sends out an email send one of your own asking the person who put all the filthy dishes in that dirty cardboard box to please put them back in the sink where they belong then go pickup all the pens and pencils on her desk and put them in your own hall of shame box with the caption these were left out in plain sight. If your lucky she doesn't keep a neat work space. If that is the case take a picture and start another hall of shame picture board with that picture. She will get the message. Basically anything she is deficient in document it and make a wall of shame for it. If she wants to be a pain in the ass be a bigger one.
 
1) Buy a condom.
2) Open it, unfurl it.
3) Place it in Box-o-Shame
4) Whatever you do, never, ever fess up*
5) Profit
6) *Enjoy EEO class with all your colleagues

 
Damn, you are so lucky. I wish we had weird people like that where I work. They're all way too normal ... except for the guy who can't find a girl to marry ... so he's taken a number of trips to Vietnam trying to find one (still looking).
 
Originally posted by: dud
Damn, you are so lucky. I wish we had weird people like that where I work. They're all way too normal ... except for the guy who can't find a girl to marry ... so he's taken a number of trips to Vietnam trying to find one (still looking).
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How ugly can a guy be?
 
LOL- we have a "administrative assistant" who is very similar. We get monthly emails about how the community refrigerator is a "privilege" and that you are only allowed to bring the current days' lunch - nothing should stay overnight - no condiments, no 6-packs, etc. Pretty basic, common-sense rules, I suppose.

But the thing is, each email is like 2-3 pages long - fonts that range from 10pt to 24pt - every color represented - about 3x as many punctuation marks as sentences. I sometimes wish that the biggest worry of my career is whether or not an engineer is keeping a soda or a jar of mustard in the refrigerator for more than a single day.
 
Originally posted by: NesuD
Complain to HR that you find it offensive and that you feel it is creating a hostile work environment.
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I wouldn't recommend that, as HR would likely take her side and nominate a "dish Nazi" of their own to make sure things are clean. Worse yet, they could make people stop using the sink completely and make you use paper plates and cups.

or everytime she sends out an email send one of your own asking the person who put all the filthy dishes in that dirty cardboard box to please put them back in the sink where they belong then go pickup all the pens and pencils on her desk and put them in your own hall of shame box with the caption these were left out in plain sight. If your lucky she doesn't keep a neat work space. If that is the case take a picture and start another hall of shame picture board with that picture. She will get the message. Basically anything she is deficient in document it and make a wall of shame for it. If she wants to be a pain in the ass be a bigger one.
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Sounds excessive, but effective. I liked the "her picture in the box of shame" idea better myself.

 
We had some plates and silverware in the break room at work that someone brought in for everyone to use, since they got a new set at home. Another co-worker stole them after a few months so she could help her daughter furnish her new apartment. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
LOL- we have a "administrative assistant" who is very similar. We get monthly emails about how the community refrigerator is a "privilege" and that you are only allowed to bring the current days' lunch - nothing should stay overnight - no condiments, no 6-packs, etc. Pretty basic, common-sense rules, I suppose.

But the thing is, each email is like 2-3 pages long - fonts that range from 10pt to 24pt - every color represented - about 3x as many punctuation marks as sentences. I sometimes wish that the biggest worry of my career is whether or not an engineer is keeping a soda or a jar of mustard in the refrigerator for more than a single day.
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I got a key to a company-owned freezer, and keep half of it filled with frozen foodstuffs. 😛 Only four of us have keys, and of those four only myself and one other regularly keep stuff in there. A third puts stuff in there once in a while. No one else at work knows what is in there or who has keys to it. :laugh:
 
People at work wash all kindas of shit at the kitchen sink (white porcelain) and pour coffee in it too, so the sink looks all brown and yellow. I never wash my lunch box at work. I wash it at home. For office parties and such, we use paper plates and plastic utensils. If I were that lady, I would just throw all the dishes in the sink into the garbage bin.
 
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